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outdoor seating

            This is the place we mean when we say to our guest, "Would you like to sit in the garden?"  We like to spend time outside and so appreciate having a convenient outdoor 'room'.

Rosa 'Veilchenblau' is still in bloom in this shot (it is pretty much ending now).  We have various potted plants we can more around to display while in flower, and we enjoy mixing and matching their various pots & foliage color/textures.

When we moved into this old house, this area had been used to store junk and was a real mess.  We managed to get the concrete cleaned and enjoy the patina of this old paved surface.  The little bits of 'weeds' that populate the cracks are in fact Viola riviana, which sports cherry little lavender-blue flowers in the spring and again in fall.  It self-seeds with abandon (and our encouragement).  Often is it joined by Cymbalaria muralis, or Kenilworth Ivy, another charming self-sower.

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Taken in: United States / California / Berkeley / West Berkeley (show map)

Taken on: May 28, 2009

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garden

sitting area

rose

rosa

veilchenblau

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Groups appears in: • The Unpretentious Garden • In my garden more » • Berkeley Gardening • Avant-Garden • mediterranean climate garden • GARDEN FAVORITES • I Grew This! • Gardens & Yards « less

Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS, f/2.7, 1/60 sec, 6mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Aperture:	f/2.7
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	6mm
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Red-eye reduction
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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